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Pag* 2B-KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Tu*«lar, Dw;*mb*r 30. 1980
Baseball Team
Top ’80 Story
EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 31,1980.
(From Pago 1-B)
Kings Mountain Junior High
added three more championships
to its Western Junior High
Athletic Association collection
during the year.
Last winter, the Patriot wrestl
ing team went unbeaten for the
third straight year under Coach
Phil Weathers and continued its
distinction as being the only club
Moss
Named
Kings Mountain Mayor John
Henry Moss has been elected
chairman of the executive com
mittee of the National Associa
tion of Professional Baseball
Leagues.
Moss, President of the South
Atlantic League, was elected to
the one-year term at the Associa
tion’s meeting during the annual
Winter Baseball Meetings earlier
this month in Texas.
Mayor Moss is serving his
fifth year as a member of the ex
ecutive committee, which rules
on all types of disputes and com
plaints in the 18-league associa
tion.
The duties of chairman also
include the office of Vice Presi
dent of the Association.
Other members of the ex
ecutive committee are Harold
M. Cooper of Columbus, Ohio,
President of the International
League; and Carl Sawatski of
Little Rock, Ark., President of
the Texas League.
The executive committee
meets four times a year and has
called meetings when necessary.
Its offices are in St. Petersburg,
Fla.
Moss has been president of the
Western Carolinas League (re
named South Atlantic League
two years ago) since its organiza
tion in 1960.
Movie Stars
To Sponsor
Softball Team
Dave Carroll, President of
Dave Carroll Sports announced
today that three of America’s
best known Hollywood figures
will participate as sponsors of his
world champion softball team in
1981.
Hal Needham, Director of
Smokey & The Bandit 1 & II,
along with actors Burt Reynolds
and Paul Newman, have agreed
to sponsor the team. The softball
team wiU be known as the “Ban
dits” in recognition of Needham
and Reynolds movie box office
smash hits.
Needham, present at the press
conference announcing the
association stated, “Softball an
nually finds over 30 million peo
ple participating. They’re the
same kind of people that helped
make the Smokey & The Bandit
films such successes. We have
decided to participate in the
sport to say thank you to all
those people and to give them
back a little something for all
they did to make our movies
such hits. Besides, any sport that
involves 30 million people is a
sport that I want to be part of.”
Carroll’s “Bandit” team will
participate in various “Invita
tional Tournaments” across the
country in 1981. They will also
be on the field in every major
A5A. and U.S.S.S.A. sanction
ed event possible, including the
1981 Slowpitch “World Series”
where they will be defending
titlists.
“Although softball is the na
tion’s largest participation sport,
never have we had the oppor
tunity to gain the national ex
posure and recognition that we
deserve. The addition of the
Needham, Reynolds, Newman
support will start us on our way
to getting that kind of exposure,”
said Carroll.
In addition to the announce
ment of the Needham,
Reynolds, Newman association,
Nenlham also revealed that
negotiations are underway for
nuyor corporate co-sponsorship
as well.
“1981 will mark my 2Sth year
of active participation in
softball,” said Carroll. “I am
committed to making it not only
the biggest and best for me and
my company and my team, but
for the entire sport as well.”
in the WJHAA to ever win a
wrestling title.
In the fall, the varsity football
team, coached by David Heffner
and John Bumgardner, won the
conference title with a 6-0-1
record. The Patriots won six
games in a row after a season
opening 6-6 tie with West
McDowell.
In the spring, the Patriot
baseball team won the chamion-
ship under first-year coach
David Heffner, defeating Shelby
for the title on the last day of the
season.
The boys basketball team,
coched by Ken Napier, led the
conference much of the year but
faltered after Napier dismissed
one of his better players for
disciplinary reasons. Still, the
Patriots finished second.
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